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Despite its microsoftian origin, I do find myself enjoying VS Code for software development. Not without some tuning, of course -- the thing that really made it usable for me is the extension that makes the editor use vi (vim) keybindings. But one thing that kept being a problem was that I still habitually type "vi <filename>" in the terminal to start editing. And now you're editing in the terminal, not in the editor.
Yesterday I learned the fix. Put something like this in your ~/.bashrc or equivalent:
if [[ "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "vscode" ]]; then
alias vi='code'
alias vim='code'
fi
It turns out that if you run "code" and the name of a file from inside the terminal of a connected session, it won't start a new session; instead, it does-the-right-thing and opens that file in a new editor tab. What's more, this even works when VS Code is operating on a remote host through SSH, which happens to be how I always use it.
Not a linux expert here at all, but it seems pretty cool.
Nurb gave me a virtual desktop i could play with at his house. its just a webpage i hit and poof i get a desktop thing ( posting from there now ). Pretty neat. Going to try to learn some stuff. At least if i break it he can fix it for me :)
Yes.
NGINX -> guac -> Dedicated linux VM on proxmox. ( well the first 2 are dedicated VMs too, but you get the point ). I used to use it when i was still in the office most of the time.
May try again to rig up a 'wake on lan' detector to auto power up sleeping VMs. Did it once before, had issues reading the packets. Wasn't important, was just a random project, gave up. Might try it again.
And since i set it up for her, it of course runs Debian. lol. ( Bookworm, i have not updated my FAI images yet to Trixie )
Sun Sep 28 2025 20:29:25 UTC from IGnatius T FoobarCool, what's it running? Something attached to Guacamole?
GNU GRUB dogma: "GRUB initializes the kernel (Linux) which in turn initializes the operating system (GNU)"
Me: "Oh yeah? I run the Linux operating system, which includes the Linux kernel."
And now I've removed GRUB and installed gummiboot. Now my kernel and initrd are in the EFI System Partition, which is where they really belong anyway.
It's a clean way of booting which I've done in the past. And it's a good dig against the "GNU/Linux" nazis.